<chapter id="plugins"> <chapterinfo> <authorgroup> <author>&Pamela.Roberts;</author> <!-- TRANS:ROLES_OF_TRANSLATORS --> </authorgroup> <date>2010-05-16</date> <releaseinfo>&kde; 4.5</releaseinfo> </chapterinfo> <title>Plugins</title> <sect1 id="netscape-plugin"> <title>&Netscape; Plugins</title> <para>Currently, &konqueror; supports &Netscape; plugins.</para> <para>Selecting <menuchoice><guimenu>Settings</guimenu><guimenuitem> Configure Konqueror...</guimenuitem> </menuchoice> opens the configuration dialog. Select the <guilabel>Plugins</guilabel> page, where you find two tabs; <guilabel>Global Settings</guilabel> to enable plugins and configure how they are used in &konqueror; and the <guilabel>Plugins</guilabel> which shows you the &Netscape; plugins that &kde; has found and allows you to scan for plugins.</para> <para>For more information see the <ulink url="help:/kcontrol/khtml-plugins/index.html"> Browser Plugins</ulink> help page.</para> </sect1> <sect1 id="konq-plugin"> <title>&konqueror; Plugins</title> <para>The &kde; module extragear contains several useful plugins that interact with &konqueror; in various ways. These are explained briefly below.</para> <!--NO ENTRY KONQ PLUGINS IN HELPCENTER NAVIGATION TREE IN KDE4 , more detailed information may be obtained by looking through the <guimenuitem>Konqueror Plugins</guimenuitem> section in the &kde; Help Center How to access the doc in extragear/base/doc/konq-plugins??? --> <para>Use <menuchoice><guimenu>Settings</guimenu><guimenuitem>Configure Extensions... </guimenuitem></menuchoice> to open a dialog with all installed plugins and select the ones you need. All plugins are accessible in the <guimenu>Tools</guimenu> menu.</para> <variablelist> <title>Browser Mode</title> <varlistentry> <term>Web Page Translation</term> <listitem><para>This uses AltaVista's BabelFish site to translate the current <acronym>HTML</acronym> page to whatever language you want (within reason). It can be launched with <menuchoice><guimenu>Tools</guimenu><guisubmenu>Translate Web Page</guisubmenu></menuchoice>.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term>DOM Tree Viewer</term> <listitem><para>Selecting <menuchoice><guimenu>Tools</guimenu><guisubmenu>Show DOM Tree</guisubmenu></menuchoice> opens a new window which displays the document object model (DOM) of the current <acronym>HTML</acronym> page.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term>HTML Validator</term> <listitem><para>This is started with <menuchoice><guimenu>Tools</guimenu><guisubmenu>Validate Web Page</guisubmenu><guimenuitem>Validate HTML</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. It uses the W3C HTML validator to validate the current page, very useful when creating web pages.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term>CSS Validator</term> <listitem><para>Started with <menuchoice><guimenu>Tools</guimenu><guisubmenu>Validate Web Page</guisubmenu><guimenuitem>Validate CSS</guimenuitem></menuchoice>, it uses the W3C CSS validator to validate the current page's Cascading Style Sheets.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term>HTML Settings</term> <listitem><para>Select <menuchoice><guimenu>Tools</guimenu><guisubmenu>HTML Settings</guisubmenu></menuchoice> to enable or disable a number of HTML settings without going through the <guimenu>Settings</guimenu> dialog. </para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term>User Agent Changer</term> <listitem><para>Select <menuchoice><guimenu>Tools</guimenu><guisubmenu>Change Browser Identification</guisubmenu></menuchoice> to get a menu that allows you to change the User Agent string without going through the <guimenu>Settings </guimenu> dialog procedure. </para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term>Archive Web Page</term> <listitem><para>Invoked with <menuchoice><guimenu>Tools</guimenu><guisubmenu> Archive Web Page</guisubmenu></menuchoice>, this tool creates an archive (<literal role="extension">.war</literal> ) file containing the web page being viewed including the images. <mousebutton>Left</mousebutton> click on the archive file name to view the saved page. </para></listitem> </varlistentry> </variablelist> <variablelist> <title>Filemanager Mode</title> <varlistentry> <term>Folder View Filter</term> <listitem><para>This is controlled by <menuchoice><guimenu>Tools</guimenu><guisubmenu>View Filter</guisubmenu></menuchoice> and allows you to choose which types of item are displayed in a folder.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term>Image Gallery</term> <listitem><para>In File Manager mode, you can select <menuchoice><guimenu>Tools</guimenu><guisubmenu>Create Image Gallery</guisubmenu></menuchoice> to create an HTML page with thumbnails of all the images in the current folder. By default the HTML page is called <filename>images.html</filename> and the thumbnails are put into a new <filename>thumbs</filename> folder. </para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term>Search Bar</term> <listitem><para>Provides a text box for easy access to search engines like Google. Clicking on the icon on the left side of the search box opens a menu to select and enable different search engines and configure their <ulink url="help:/kcontrol/ebrowsing/index.html">Web Shortcuts</ulink>. </para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term>Shell Command Plugin</term> <listitem><para>This plugin enables you to execute a shell command in the current folder and view the output in a separate window. </para></listitem> </varlistentry> <!--not build in 4.4 <varlistentry> <term>Sidebar Media Player</term> <listitem><para>This is a simple media player, embedded as a tab page in the Sidebar. You can drag songs or videos onto this page to play them. </para></listitem> </varlistentry> --> </variablelist> </sect1> </chapter> <!-- Local Variables: mode: sgml sgml-omittag: nil sgml-shorttag: t sgml-minimize-attributes: nil sgml-general-insert-case: lower sgml-parent-document:("index.docbook" "book" "chapter") End: -->